The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-01-13
STATE AND .vraHBoRAooD.
odds aud Ends Ar,.need for the Hurried
Reader.


The village Of Oxford has nine csndi-
dates for postmaster.
Rl9 damage SUITE will TasnIt from the
natural gas explosion at youngstown.
O0rrl College had 1 1922 students last
year, OF which number $50 we're 0hIOans.
A su4IiciOn prevails that grave rob-
oers nave got In their work at 0rrVille.
Bill Campbell, Congress druggist,
W "a IT, me voice of conscience and
destroyed his liquors.
fhe P'unsylV,uIa COMPANY has order
ed all adYertiseme nts removed from sta
ton houses atgrr February |.
ono penitentiary managers have add
el for more to the number of cDuyicts
mpIoyed on the piece prlcs plga.
Olit will enumersts over 2OOOO
hhights Of P7!hlas befort the next ses.
no back set.
Ghsuncy Andrews don't know yet that
he Will rebuild the block recently
knocked into smlthereens by the festive
atural gas.
Horace FlTeStOne, of Wooster, won't
t'D gSsn down hill some more, at least
untll his arm, which Is broken In two
0iaces, iS well.
Miss Ada Sherman, the railroad evan
g lst, has captured Bellaire and over
3OO persons have been converted in the
pa7t three weeks.
Mark Allen, Youngstown boy, fell into
trench OF the Mahoning Gas Fuel Co.
ahu OrnKe his arm. His parents now
want $40 600 damages.
Toledo Council has provided way by
which they can get their drinks after
O'CLOCK on Sundays. Twenty four
hours Is little too long for the average
Councilman to go dry.
Francis Murphy has closed his en-
gaHtment In Cincinnati; about 5000
women' children and prOhibitiOnists
nave signed the pledgs again, and he is
| O% O% ready for another engagement at
$500 night.
Edward Ball, q Lucas county D rIsoner
| sentenced Tor three years for the crime
1 larceny, escaped from the peniten-
,6'y Friday ulgut, Hs escaped over
ue Wal Nv means OF rope. Bail is
ecOhd teTmer.
Otiiers are on the track of gang of
| c0uhterieiteTs, who haVa been showing
| ne qlseC IN aud about the town of Den-
II SOU Their goods ere principally ten
'ollar oil 8, and they have been quite
Successful III ii )ating them.
Tne Mineral Pointer" is the name of
no Z 0enix that rises from the ashes of
me Oetuuct "Macksuurg Margin" W.
ID sick, edi,Or and publisher. It shows
Ro'ni7 Of good local paper, and the
DEMOCRAT wishes 1t success.
A rat hunt at Mt Vernon, resulted in
3 743 rat tails and 2,489 mice tails.
I-lCln. Com. Gazette. Tail" Is evil
dbnyly the Mt Vernon mans "best
hold" At least he appears to be more
successful In that liAe than In catching
rats.
An Akron man claims to have in
vented device to instantly free horse
from buggy In case of a runaway. We
don't understand exactly how the thing
WorRs, but presume that all the driver
ias to DO is to get out and cut the
traces.
The wife and five-year-old child of
Ganrge BackUs, of Green Springs, near
ritin, were found dead In a cistern
near the b use Monday. 1t Ia supposed
the boy fell into the water and that
both were drowned while the mother
was trying to rescue him.
Dr. FOuser, physician to the Summit
county Infirmsry, testified the other dsy
that one child had been born In that
f. stitution in 1886. three or four in
1885 and about thirty during the six
years he had been the Infirmary physic-
ian. One would think 1t high time an
Investigation was ordered.
Jonas YOder, of Holmes county, who
committed suicide few weeks since,
1t is said cannot rest In his grave, but
takes his ghostly walks at night when
the clock strikes low twelve. His widow
has had his remains taken up and buried
In q grave yard about four miles away
where she hopes he will be Quiet and
''stOp his foOlin'."
John Crlddle, an old and trusted en-
gineer on the P. Ft. 81 C. Railroad, was
caught la wreck In A legheny City on
Sunday evening, and for an hour was
pinned down under his engine. When
extrtcated his leg was found to be
crushed to a pulp, and immediate am
putation was decided necessary. He
stood the operation bravely, and 1t is
thought may pull through.
Professor B. Schaff, the Cincinnati
book swindler, who has been confined In
Jail for several days, was to have Ap-
peared In police court on Monday, but
was found to be in stupor and soon
after died. His death was the result of a
dose of morphine procured for him by
Socialist who was di, charged from jail a
few days since 1t now turns ont that
ne wssin the Hsymarket riot In Chicago
anN pretty strong proof exists that he
was the man VINO threw tae deadly
bOmU.